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Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning

von Contzen, Eva

The Journal of medieval and early modern studies, 2023-09, Vol.53 (3), p.597-622 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Who Has Intention? Chaucer Studies and the Search for Meaning
Autor: von Contzen, Eva
Assuntos: Art and Visual Culture ; Art History ; Literary Criticism ; Literature and Literary Studies ; Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; Pre-Modern Studies
É parte de: The Journal of medieval and early modern studies, 2023-09, Vol.53 (3), p.597-622
Descrição: Chaucer criticism has always grappled with the question of intentionality. While early critics saw no trouble in identifying the voices in Chaucer's texts with the author's intention, authorial intention—not to be confused with autobiographical readings—became the elephant in the room from the early twentieth century onward. This article reviews the various approaches critics have put forward within Chaucer studies to avoid ascribing intention to Chaucer the poet. Starting with the concept of the narrator (a twentieth-century invention), three different approaches to the and their narrative situations are discussed, in which authorial intention looms large: the “dramatic,” the “detached,” and the “animated.” Then a case is made for the unavoidability of intentionalist readings by drawing on cognitive literary theories, in particular the intentional stance. When engaging with Chaucer, critics need to embrace intention as a key generator in the meaning-making activity of interpretation.
Editor: Duke University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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